Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. rampant, extreme.

c.1538		Thersytes (1550) A iii: Now woulde I not feare with anye bull to fyghte Or with a rampinge lyon nother by daye nor nyghte.
c.1597		Shakespeare Henry IV Pt 1 III i: A couching lion, and a ramping cat.
1614		Jonson Bartholomew Fair IV v: Peace, you foul ramping jade, you— [...] IV v: Your Punque of Turnbull, Ramping Ales.
1617		Fletcher Mad Lover I i: How our St. Georges will bestride the dragons, The red and ramping dragons!
a.1661		‘The Bloody Bed-roll’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) 344: Make room for a Ramping Lady, / One of the Devils race.
1675		C. Cotton Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 233: That great ramping Fuss, the Daughter.
1702		Vanbrugh Aesop Pt II ii: I’ve a great Ramping Daughter, that stares like a Heifer.
1853		Bell’s Life in Sydney 14 May 3/1: The Hibernian held his head down and looked very unlike a rampin, roarin, rowlin boy.
1899		W.T. Goodge ‘Queen Wilhelmina and the Bicycle’ in Hits, Skits and Jingles n.p.: For the ramping Wilhelmina has a yearning to be free.
1903		Truth (Sydney) 22 Feb. 7/5: Witch it makes the Karkhee rampln’, / And he bawls, ‘She has me purse’.
1909		Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/3: They heard it said that Tom Mann was a ramping ranting cuckoo.
1916		P. Kyne Cappy Ricks 157: He was [...] ramping with youth and health and strength.

2. of women, promiscuous; working as a prostitute.

1576		G. Whetstone ‘Castle of Delight’ Rocke of Regard 3: Soe ramping girles, regarde no modest lawes.
1598		E. Guilpin Skialetheia D3v: A ramping whore.
1608		Dekker Honest Whore Pt 2 (1630) V ii: ’Tis a plaine ramping Beare.
c.1611		Fletcher Woman’s Prize I i: All the ramping, roaring tricks, a whore Being drunk, and tumbling ripe, would tremble at.
1646		H. Mill Nights Search II 130: O, her’s a ramping Dame, Compos’d with basenesse, impudence, and shame.
a.1661		‘The Bloody Bed-roll’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) I 344: Make room for a Ramping Lady, / One of the Devils race.